Continuing to mix it up a bit with Christmas Songs this year. Austin Stone Music are part of Austin Stone Community Church in the US. They’re currently featuring their 2012 release A Day Of Glory on Noisetrade as a free download. The download contained nine of the ten listed tracks on the album. If you’re …

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For Christmas songs today I’m posting about Page CXVI‘s newly released EP Advent To Christmas. The EP has been produced as the first of three, with following releases thematically linked to Lent, Palm Sunday, and Maundy Thursday, and then Good Friday and Easter. Those of you familiar with their contemporary arrangements and recordings of hymns …

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Just because introducing new songs at Christmas time is hard work doesn’t mean I don’t like listening to them. Apparently I haven’t said much about All Sons & Daughters. (Probably because they don’t sell their music for download via a service that I like.) Male and female duo voice folk/roots seems to be a popular …

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Translated from Latin verse by Edward Caswell, Hark, The Thrilling Voice Is Sounding brings ancient expressions of faith to the present. It seems to be primarily linked with the tune MERTON. The fourth verse takes up the Advent theme of the Lord Jesus’ second coming. There are a number of variations on the lyrics, which …

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